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~et better acquainted with campus, here is a guide to the administration and the campus ministers. brary hours, food court hours and the meal exchange schedule.

Campus Minister

(Can be found in the Campus Ministry Office)

Campus Minister

(Can be found in the Campus Ministry office)

(Can be found in Grace Hall, in the Academic Affairs Office, on the same side as the Registrar)

Advice for first-year students: "Attending class and participating is the most important thing you can do in order to succeed."

Advice for first-year students: "Don't be afraid to learn how to think. Get as much information as you can. Explore all the possibilities and think your decisions through. And know when to relax."

Advice for first-year students: "Have the courage to be yourself. Don't lose sight of your original intentions. Be open to experiencing new things, but always assess whether or not it was good or bad. Decide if the.new things you' re exposed to are good or bad for you, and how is it going to help you become the person you want to become."

Food court hours:

Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Saturday a.m. - 1:00 p.m. No Sunday hours

EDITORIAL Wrongfullyaccused

Late this summer, students whose residence hall fines exceeded $250 received a letter stating that they were placed on residential hall probation, meaning that another write-up will result in suspension of residential hall priveledges. Where is this policy in any of the information available to students, i.e. the student handbook or the residential hall agreement?

According to Dr. Robert Bonfiglio, vice president for student development, this regulation is stated in both the student handbook and the residential hall agreement. The policy is written as follows: "Residents whose end of the year damage bill is deemed to be excessive by the director of resident life may be subject to disciplinary action." This statement is lacking in definition. What is excessive? What kind of disciplinary action? If students are to be subject to such a punishment as residential probation, should they not know ahead of time exactly what they are getting themselves into by accumulating high fines? For students to understand fully what results in residential probation, the policy needs to use specific guidelines in order to properly forewarn students.

Aside from the regulation's deficiency in specificity, there is the issue concerning which students were placed on residential probation. If a student wrecked his room and/or common living area and caused more than $250 in damages, then he deserves to be punished. But what about the student who just happened to be in a quad where another student created residential expenses? Should he be held responsible and receive the subsequent disciplinary action for financial harm he did not cause?

The concept of punishing students in ways other than monetarily for housing damages is a good one. However, students need to be made aware definitively what disciplinary actions will be inflicted and the amount of fines necessary to qualify for further punishment. They should not be informed approximately two weeks prior to the beginning of the fall semester that they have been placed on residential probation, as they were this year. In addition, innocent students who were in the wrong quad at the wrong time should not be disciplined in the same manner as the students who trashed their living quarters.